Let me explain with a small history lesson: It is a good assumption that as the Internet helped create a global community, we are no longer connecting our computers to a LAN – Local Area Network with a firewall that can defend the network against the local regional troublemakers(the local youth or hackers that are learning … Read more
Trustedwave released a 110 page Global Security Report This article will review the ROI portion of the report. This report focuses on breaches on TrustedWave investigations (as Trustedwave has many security services and products) so this report is trying to help sell their services. One could say it is a competitor of consultants and … Read more
Whereas Hacking is hard but includes a level of cool factor in the world (criminal or ethical). A new report came out yesterday from Rand.org: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1024.html It is a PDF that can be downloaded for free and is only 162 pages. http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1000/RR1024/RAND_RR1024.pdf (if you have not noticed, on my site unless the link … Read more
It seems to me there is a large disconnect of how a hacker does their work. There are lot of youtube videos with hackers showing how they have hacked something. How can hackers seemingly get in complicated defenses? (not all hackers are criminal in nature) The following shows some of the combinations within a … Read more
This “bug” that is now a kind of DOS (Denial of Service) attack is indicative of many Security problems that we have currently. There is a specific problem when somebody texts these quirky unicode characters: (some of them have been struck so as to make it a bit harder to copy) As opposed … Read more
